And in another moment of "We may never know the motive",

Salman Rushdie, the author who's had a death sentence hanging over him since Khomeini issued in 1989 for 'insulting Islam and the prophet', was attacked on stage.  Stabbed multiple times, will probably lose one eye. By Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, was born in the United States to Lebanese parents who emigrated from Yaroun, a border village in southern Lebanon, Mayor Ali Tehfe told The Associated Press.

From the cops: Police said the motive for the Friday attack was unclear. Matar was born a decade after “The Satanic Verses” first was published.
Yeah.  Because nobody born after the event could possibly be acting on it, right?

These people are as bad as the cops and social workers in Britain who let rape gangs(they probably still are) keep going because if they accused the muslims doing it, they might be called 'racist'...